Question

This is a question concerning android applications with two different .apks (or two apps contained in the one .apk file)

I have two apps which do completely different things but are related, say one is a standard user app and one is an admin app. But a user can be both a user and an admin. I am wondering is it possible for me to create one .apk file that installs two applications to the phone? And how would I got about this?

Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

It depends on your definition of “application”. You cannot install 2 applications if you use the more official definition, as you can have only 1 <application> in your manifest.xml

You can define several activities in your manifest.xml, and they can do seperate things, so in that way YOU CAN have 2 things a person might describe as “application” in one APK

Just define multiple activities and use those could be defined as an option, but it depends on your definition of ‘application’, but in this case I’d say it would work